Improvement in basket-bottoms



H. c. sones. Basket-Botfthms.

Patented Nov. 17, 18714.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE `JONES, OF DOWAGIAC, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN BASKET-BoTToMs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 156,850, dated November 17,1874; application tiled To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HORACE C. JONES, o Dowagiac, in the county of Cass and State of Michigan, have invented a new and usef'ul improvement in uniting an appended bottom to a new or old basket-body; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and

exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyinging drawings forming part of this specilication, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of an appendable bottom for a stave basket. Fig. 2^is an inverted plan view of the bottom appended to a basket. Fig. 3 is an inside top view of the appended bottom, with a circular board on top of the bottom ends of the staves of the basket to which the appended bottom is fastened. Figf'4 is a similar view to Fig. 3, the circular board being removed. Fig. 5 is a vertical central section of the appended bottom pressed up or formed in a hollow `conical pile, appended to a basket with its bottom similarly shaped. l

The nature of my invention consists in constructing a bottom for a stave basket of pieces of staves which are shorter than the staves which form the body of such basket, and uniting such bottom to the body of the basket by means of the bottom hoops, and nails or rivets, as will be hereinafter described.

It is evident from Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 5, that theappendable bottom is formed of a series of short pieces of staves, A, laid in respect to one another, as shown, or in any well-known manner of forming the bottoms of baskets which are constructed with their bottoms as a part of their bodies. These short pieces of staves are long enough from the center of the bottom to come between the ordinary bottom hoops D D of a stave basket.

To apply this botttom, the lower ends of the worn basket are left extending far enough to pass between the said bottom hoops, and therefore when the appendable bottom is placed against these ends, and the two hoops set in position and nailed through the body, the bottom and the hoops will be united rmlytogether after the manner made evident in August 14, 1872.

the lower end of the staves of the body of i?" the basket, just as the inner bottom hoop is placed upon them, and then the outer bottom hoop is to be adjusted under the outer edge of the staves of the appended bottom, and the whole riveted together.

I Wish it to be distinctly understood that mv invention is not confined to the form of bottom described and shown, nor to the form of basket shown, as its peculiar nature and character is the mode of unitingI a bottom made separable from the body of the basket by means of the ordinary bottom hoop or hoops, and, when thus u nited, it taking the place of the ordinary bottom of a basket, or being as a re-enforce to the said ordinary bottom.

I do not claim interweaving the ends of splints of the bottom ot' a basket with the' ends of the splints of the body of the basket. Nor do I claim abasket formed of inclined staves, the lower ends of which are riveted to a circular block, and encircled by a bandinghoop. Neither 'do I claim forming a conical projection upon such a block-bottom of such a basket, such basket being shown in the pat; ent of W. H. Carpenter, granted in 1869.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A basket with the appendable bottom formed of staves, as described, attached thereto, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

HORACE C. JONES. Witnesses:

Jos. B. CLARKE, 0. L. JORDAN. 

